James Meredith Quotes
My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
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Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
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I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
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My mother wanted a conservative, secure life, and she has been married to my father since she was 18... A lot of hard work went into that marriage and a lot of not getting what you want.
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I think most of the American people were upset during the Zoe Baird nomination that she hired an illegal alien. That was what upset them more than the fact the she did not pay Social Security taxes.
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The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
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My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.
